best viewed in the southern sky. Set against a backdrop littered with tiny pinpricks of light glint a few, brighter stars, ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit imaged the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds as the International Space Station cruised 260 miles ...

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WOH G64 is located a staggering 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite dwarf galaxy companion of the Milky Way. Astronomers have known of the existence of this ...

Some of the neighborhood's less-massive galaxies orbit the Milky Way as satellites. Two satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud, can be seen in the night sky ...

The star, WOH G64, is in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, approximately 160,000 light-years away. "This is the first time we actually have a sharp image of a star ...

In its galactic neighborhood, the Milky Way can be something of a bully. Our galaxy's two closest neighbors are two dwarf galaxies known as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), and the Small ...

The star -- WOH G64 -- is 160,000 light-years from Earth, in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that orbits the Milky Way, according to the observatory. This image shows the location of ...

Looming near the mighty sweep of the southern Milky Way, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds resemble detached ... seen on the night of February 23, 1987, it captured the attention of ...

A group of astronomers has proposed a cessation of the name, Magellanic Clouds, for the dwarf galaxies adjacent to the Milky Way. They argue ... the terms Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and Small ...

But we can't put the Milky Way on a scale ... HVCs relative to the motion of the Magellanic clouds. Also, since GASS only observed portions of the southern sky, the authors used Bayesian ...